Logout problem

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Hi there,

I am designing a website.Everything works fine except the logout scenario.After the user login into website,he uses it(website) and does a logout to return to Login page,but the problem is that from login page if I click the back button,again it redirects to the last used page.This should not happen.The session still exists.I used

Session.Abandon();
Response.Redirect("Login.aspx");

in Logout linkbutton click event.But the problem still exists.
Is there any other solution for this and Can I use Session Timeout mechanisms.Please let me know..
Thanks and Regards,
S.M.Naresh.

Posted 17-Nov-10 3:22am

S.M.Naresh

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Sandeep Mewara · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-17T03:33:00

This happens because of cache.
1. clear the sessions
2. clear the cache such that browser has no history (this will make back/forward button in browser grayed out disabled.)

Code for clearing cache can be put up in code behind as follows:

C#

// Code disables caching by browser. Hence the back browser button
// grayed out and could not causes the Page_Load event to fire 
Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);
Response.Cache.SetExpires(DateTime.UtcNow.AddHours(-1));
Response.Cache.SetNoStore();

OR
You can add somethin similar in form aspx if you want to place it there:

<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="0"></meta></meta></meta>

OR
You can clear browser history through JavaScript....

JavaScript

//clears browser history and redirects url
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=javascript> {  var Backlen=history.length;   history.go(-Backlen);   window.location.href=page url }</SCRIPT>

OR as you say in you logout event:

C#

protected void LogOut()   
{       
     Session.Abandon();       
     string nextpage = "Logoutt.aspx";       
     Response.Write("<script language=javascript>");             
     Response.Write("{");       
     Response.Write(" var Backlen=history.length;");       
     Response.Write(" history.go(-Backlen);");       
     Response.Write(" window.location.href='" + nextpage + "'; ");
     Response.Write("}");       
     Response.Write("</script>");   
}